AI researcher: Claude finally finished tedious research tasks I gave up on years ago
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-23
AI researcher MikePFrank says Claude ("Opus 5.5") is now great at completing tedious, mechanical research tasks he had started manually years ago before giving up. He notes these are the kind of work he might once have assigned to "an unlucky graduate student or postdoc" had he had the funding — a first-hand sign of AI taking over research grunt work.
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